Gerhard Schinkel
Richard Fritz Gerhard Schinkel (born November 26, 1925 in Nordhausen ; † July 24, 1985 in Erfurt ) was a German politician ( SED ).
Life
Gerhard Schinkel was the son of the judicial clerk Eduard Schinkel and his wife Henriette, geb. Müller. He attended primary and secondary school in Heiligenstadt . After graduating from high school in 1944, he worked briefly as an assistant teacher in Austria . He was married and had three children.
After the end of the war in 1945, Schinkel was an employee in the Department of Labor in Heiligenstadt. He joined the Communist Party of Germany on November 1, 1945 and was one of the co-founders of “anti-fascist-democratic” youth groups on the Eichsfeld, the basis for the later Free German Youth (FDJ). He "played a major role in attracting hundreds of young people to the unified youth association, so that when the FDJ was officially founded on March 7, 1946, there was already a district association in Eichsfeld with around 3,500 young people." Until 1949, Gerhard Schinkel was chairman of the FDJ district leadership in Heiligenstadt.
From 1949 to 1952 he acted as second secretary of the SED district leadership in Heiligenstadt, and from 1952 to 1955 as first secretary of the SED district leadership in Worbis . 1955/56 Schinkel studied at the party college "Karl Marx" . He completed his studies as a social scientist. From 1956 to 1960 he worked as first secretary of the SED district leadership in Nordhausen (successor to Erich Heyl ), then from 1960 to 1965 as first secretary of the SED district leadership in Erfurt-Stadt . Schinkel studied between 1965 and 1967 at the University of Economics in Berlin-Karlshorst with a degree in economics. From 1967 to 1984 he was finally secretary for science, popular education and culture of the SED district leadership in Erfurt . After leaving the party offices for health reasons, Schinkel took over the chairmanship of the Erfurt District Committee of People's Solidarity as a disability pensioner .
After his death he was buried in the grove of honor for deserving citizens at the main cemetery in Erfurt. However, he was reburied after German reunification because the Unification Treaty repealed paragraph 12, paragraph 1 of the regulation on the funeral and cemetery system in the GDR with a four-year transition period.
Awards
- Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze, silver (1969) and gold (1979)
- Hufeland medal in gold
literature
- Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 775.
- Andreas Herbst , Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan, Jürgen Winkler (eds.): The SED. History, organization, politics. A manual. Dietz, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-320-01951-1 , p. 1069.
- Daily newspaper Das Volk (Erfurt), July 26, 1985.
- Hans Demme: Gerhard Schinkel. Co-founder of the FDJ on the Eichsfeld . In: Eichsfelder Heimathefte , Heft 2 (1986), pp. 120–122.
- Traces of the grave slab in the honor grove for deserving citizens in Erfurt
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ see Demme (1986).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schinkel, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SED) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nordhausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 24, 1985 |
| Place of death | Erfurt |